Recent content by oldbushie

Ah, got it. Still an inefficient way to go about doing things, but who am I to expect efficiency from Windows? :P

Yeah, I know how to change file associations just fine, no issues there. Thanks for confirming whether or not that option to disassociate a file from all programs exists though. About the only way I know for sure is through a registry cleaner after a program has been uninstalled, since the file...

My point is that there doesn't seem to be a way through the interface to *disable* a default file association for a given type entirely. I think I recall that being changeable elsewhere but I forget where. I fully understand not having conflicting defaults, that's just common sense. But what's...

I recently installed foobar2000 which brings up the Set Default Programs interface to handle file associations. I've never used it before, so it's likely that this problem was around for a while. At any rate, for *every* program, while I can select new file associations I can't deselect already...

Finally! I found a solution! 7 Taskbar Tweaker - RaMMicHaeL's home page It also lets you customize a lot of other things about the Taskbar. No more will those mysterious popup lists keep interfering with my productivity!!!!

Gah, never mind, I thought it went away after but it didn't. I just can't find anything anywhere that fixes the problem, it's very counter productive. :(

Aha! This seems to have done the trick: Link Removed - Invalid URL Apparently thumbnail preview is lumped together with the popup boxes with close buttons on them. Hallelujah! No more accidentally closing applications!

For what it's worth, I have the latest BIOS flashed for my motherboard *and* the latest Nvidia drivers and I'm still getting the "driver has stopped responding" error occasionally. I somehow doubt it's a problem with the motherboard. I think Nvidia just needs to put out more stable drivers for...

Nope, unfortunately.

For some reason I can't install the Japanese Language Pack. Has anyone successfully installed it? I keep getting this error code: 80070643. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. Edit: Never mind, a reboot did the trick. Not sure what was causing it to fail earlier but oh well.

I have a Netgear RangeMax Dual Band Wireless-N USB 2.0 Adapter and lately, my internet keeps getting into this weird mode where I'll start a Youtube video for instance, and it shows no signs of loading until 2 minutes later after which suddenly the entire video seems to have downloaded. I'm also...

Anyone have any ideas? I haven't seen anything in the policy editor that might fix this, and I'm not sure where to even start looking in the registry.

Is there any way to disable this popup that gets triggered when hovering? I have grouping disabled, and I find that the grouping popup gets in the way when I'm trying to do other things near the taskbar. I generally don't run more than 8-10 programs on the taskbar at a time so I don't find...